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Trump Will Be Looking For 'More Bold, More Fearless' Judges In His Second Term

Moderate Republican judges are being urged to step aside to allow a wave of even more conservative, younger judges to be appointed to the federal courts.

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There are appointments of the president who have really become stars on the bench, and from the perspective of the people who’ll be advising and choosing, are probably held in very high regard. You would imagine that there’ll be an effort to find more appointees who are like them.

— Jesse Panuccio, the Justice Department’s former Acting Associate Attorney General under the first Trump administration and current partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, in comments given to Bloomberg Law, on the archetype of judicial candidate that president-elect Donald Trump will be looking to appoint during his second go round in the White House. Panuccio is likely referring to judges like Aileen Cannon (S.D. Fla.), Matthew Kacsmaryk (N.D. Tex.), and James Ho (5th Cir.). Mike Davis, a former Senate Republican aide who now runs a conservative legal group, the Article III Project, echoed Panuccio’s remarks in urging older and more moderate Republican-appointed judges to step aside, saying, “It’s a good time to let a younger, more bold, more fearless conservative judge take your place.”

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on X/Twitter and Threads or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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